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...surprise of many educators, the youngsters tend to score handsomely when they move on to high school. "Once there was a stigma attached to going to a one-room school, like you were a hick or something," says Ralph Kroon, field director of the Montana Rural Education Center at Western Montana College. "Now it's a back-to-basics phenomenon." Nowhere is the phenomenon more vital than in Nebraska, which has 300 public one-room schools, more than any other state, and where parents have collected 85,000 signatures for a 1986 referendum on stopping further consolidation...
...trying to make a more cohesive environmental network,” said Andrew Kroon, a Yale senior...
...rare bassist who propels music as much with his ideas as his skills. On this, his first album-length experiment with Latin jazz, Carter realizes that others have come before him, so rather than beat the congas to a pulp, his expert quartet, featuring ace percussionist Steve Kroon, flirts with them. Latin classics like Besame Mucho and Corcovado are splendidly reworked into disciplined, mid-tempo jazz tunes, while samba-flavored Carter originals Loose Change and Mi Tempo prove that playing in the cultural middle ground has its own intellectual thrill...
GENEVA: In the first follow-up to the international Earth Summit in Rio on the issue of forestry, officials are meeting in Geneva to find a way to ensure sustainable harvesting from the world's forests. TIME's Robert Kroon reports that while the number of forested acres in northern climes is stable or increasing, rapid deforestation continues in tropical rainforests of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. More than 200 experts are gathered to find ways of balancing pressures on forests -->